HOCKEY DREAMS MEMORIES OF A MAN WHO COULDN'T PLAY [SIGNED CANADIAN 1ST/1ST]

David Adams Richards

ISBN 10: 0385256078 / ISBN 13: 9780385256070

Published by Doubleday Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada, 1996

About this Item

A fine copy in mustard boards with gold, gilt lettering on the spine. SIGNED BY DAVID ADAMS RICHARDS ON THE TITLE PAGE. This is a first edition, first printing. It is a tight clean copy with no markings of any kind. Of collectable quality.

Seller Inventory # 001719

Bibliographic Details

• Title: HOCKEY DREAMS MEMORIES OF A MAN WHO COULDN'T PLAY [SIGNED CANADIAN 1ST/1ST]
• Publisher: Doubleday Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385256078
• ISBN 13: 9780385256070
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

With a voice as Canadian as winter, David Adams Richards reflects on the place of hockey in the Canadian soul.

The lyrical narrative of Hockey Dreams flows from Richards' boyhood games on the Miramichi to heated debates with university professors who dare to back the wrong team.  It examines the globalization of hockey, and how Canadians react to the threat of foreigners beating us at "our" game.

Part memoir, part essay on national identity, part hockey history, Hockey Dreams is a meditation by one of Canada's finest writers on the essence of the game that helps define our nation.

About the Author

David Adams Richards is an award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction. His meditation on the joys of fly-fishing, Lines on the Water, published by Doubleday Canada, won the Governor General's Award in 1998. His previous non-fiction book with Doubleday Canada, Hockey Dreams, was a national bestseller. As a novelist, Richards is best known for his Miramichi trilogy: Nights Below Station Street (1988), winner of the Governor General's Award; Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace (1990), winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award; and For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down. His novel The Bay of Love and Sorrows, published in 1998, received widespread critical acclaim.


From the Trade Paperback edition.